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Doc Tor
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"In my father's house are many tangents" is the subtitle of Heaven, and assuredly not of Hell.

If you wish to start a thread for the discussion of personal space invaders, knock yourselves out. Otherwise, knock it off.

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churchgeek

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Well, the brunt of my anger has subsided while the TICTH thread was closed, but...

Last week some motherfuckers broke into our house and stole my computer, my roommate's camera, and a few other things. And ripped our alarm system out of the wall (tbh, I don't blame 'em, that thing HURT when it went off). And the door they kicked in needed to be replaced.

I bought the new alarm system, despite my underemployment, and had to take 2 days off work to be here until the place was finally secure again.

All of which leads to a -$85 balance in my checking account. And my temp assignment abruptly ended, and I have lots of expenses right now...

So I consign the bastards who broke into our house to hell today. Just not for eternity, though; I'm a universalist.

And it is kinda just part of the cost of living in Detroit. But only because these thugs think they can damage other people's homes and take their stuff. Anyone who thinks like that probably doesn't need to be consigned to hell, come to think of it. They sort of carry hell around with them.

Just next time, don't bring it into my house.

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Step back, tread heavily on their feet, move behind them, apologising profusely and realistically, and then at the appropriate moment push them in front of the train. They won't bother you again.

Ian J.

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Bishops Finger
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Bugger. My last was for Ariel, quite a few posts ago.......

....I think I'll go and kick a UKipper......

Ian J.

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Bishops Finger
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TICTH myself, for having wasted a golden opportunity to annoy a racist old sod wearing a UKIP badge. He was sitting outside the Polling Station yesterday, asking in an unctuous and oleaginous manner for the poll numbers of those coming in to vote (apparently this is legal!!).

I just wish I'd pointed out to him (gently, of course, and in Christian Love) that, if his party got rid of all the Awful Foreigners And People Not Like Us, he'd have no-one to wipe his arse and bring him a cuppa tea when he's in his nursing home........


Ian J.

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chive

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TICTH the weaselly ignorant stupid psychiatrist who decided it was appropriate to write to my GP a letter that contains a)irrelevant nonsense - why would it be clinically relevant that a Scottish person speaks with a Scottish accent, b) stupid irrelevant commentary that starts with 'I wonder'. You can wonder all you want you stupid bitch but if you'd asked me I could have told you that your wondering was nonsense and saved you all that mental energy and c)downright lies. If you're going to say you've discussed something with me, don't make it something that I can clearly demonstrate you didn't discuss. Also if you say I agree with something don't make it something that I can show, with written evidence, I have systematically disagreed with since 2009. That's just stupid.

How dare she have the arrogance to make up things she was clearly to lazy to ask about in the consultation. I am hugely distressed and offended. If I behaved like that professionally I would be sacked and that would be correct but clearly Dr Fuckwit will get away with it because she's a psychiatrist and I'm her patient or service user or client or whatever nonsense you want to call it and am therefore entirely untrustworthy.

And finally if you are going to write bullshit about me you should have the courtesy to copy me into your letter so that I could dispute it at the time instead of months later when it's in the system and all over my medical records.

And fuck you for having me find all this out in the middle of a fortnight's annual leave which I took because I was under a lot of stress and wanted to chill out. Instead of that I have to write stroppy letters to you and your boss and try to get this rectified.

Fuckwit

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TICTH

People with rucksacks, especially on crowded tube trains.
Short people with umbrellas.
People eating smelly takeaway food on public transport.
The Jubilee Line escalators at London Bridge station.

Thank fuck I rarely travel into Central London these days.

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TICTH (briefly, because in other ways they're all good people) a selection of profoundly irritating arseholes from my "fellowship" who are unwittingly heaping straws on the back of this particular camel.

They can all just FRO.

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TICTH IT 'support' teams that are less use than a chocolate fireguard. If I report a problem - in full, including all relevant error messages - then please, PLEASE do look at the information I send you. If I say that I've had a problem with something, as well as several other users reporting the same issue, why ask me to log on as one of them (who's out of the country at the moment, so I can't even ask to try this), rather than checking one of the things that I've set up which isn't working. And for goodness' sake, do NOT try telling me that it all seems to be working fine if you haven't looked at the actual problem reported... [Mad] [Mad] [Mad]

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Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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That came to you from Snags, the Ship's resident MCSE (Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert) [Biased]

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Penny S
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I stopped getting peeved with the basic support questions when I (as ICT Coordinator) was called to the Deputy Head's classroom because the monitor wasn't coming on.

The lead connecting it to the computer wasn't connected.

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Jemima the 9th
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TICTH the monumental amount of faff involved in "helping" with the music for a service. Ditching the choir and music director probably seemed like a brilliant idea at the time, but the consequences for us poor numpties who get to fit in the endless jobs between our paid employment, caring duties, families etc is a royal pain in the arse.

Beginning to think about suggesting that all songs are accompanied by armpit farting.

[It's nowt compared with being lied about by a psychiatrist though. That's A grade evil.]

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I'm sorry Jt9, but ditching the choir and the music director* and then complaining about having to provide the music for a service is rather like switching off the fire and complaining that it's cold.

[Devil]

* I appreciate that this may not have been your decision.

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*gggnnnnnn*

Much frustration, many confuse, so Doge.

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Penny S
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The person who thinks that a suitable price for an A.C. Black's out of print school carol book (£20 when in print) is £213.
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Jemima the 9th
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
I'm sorry Jt9, but ditching the choir and the music director* and then complaining about having to provide the music for a service is rather like switching off the fire and complaining that it's cold.

[Devil]

* I appreciate that this may not have been your decision.

Exactly. Not my decision, no. Perhaps I should suggest to the rector that the dcc consider appointing another music director. And then watch him fall about laughing. Sigh.
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quote:
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The person who thinks that a suitable price for an A.C. Black's out of print school carol book (£20 when in print) is £213.

You know, you're right. If a set of illustrations for a poem sold for £1.25 once, it should still be £1.25. Anything else is just profiteering.

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Penny S
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A 1970s school book, used (and I know the state of the copy back in the school I used to teach at), when the publisher has a box on their site that if clicked, means that they will notify prospective purchasers when the current edition is back in print. (With accompaniment CD.) This is not a 1st edition of Thomas Tallis. Average price quoted about £50, some (already gone) about £2.
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TICTH idealistic pictures dreamed up by artists working in PR designed to tell you how an urban development will look. They are always embellished with wholly unnecessary details. For example on this view of a development near London Bridge why the fuck is there a hot air balloon with a Union Jack on it flying next to the bloody Shard??? How often does that happen?

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TITCH both my employer's decision to 'repurpose' its finance division, laying off about 50% of the relevant staff in the process, and the (totally predictable) clusterfuck of inefficiency that has replaced it, which has, for added irony, the word 'service' in its title.

I have been waiting for NINE DAYS for a purchase order, without which I cannot proceed, and in addition to not receiving a purchase order, I have not received any sort of acknowledgement of any kind to any of my email or phone message queries about said purchase order.

It's completely fucking ridiculous, and the most frustrating thing of all is that this abomination of a service centre is just a faceless no-reply email system to feed stuff into - there is no facility to get hold of an actual person and do any of the following: 1.) Ask them if they received your request for a purchase order 2.) Ask them how long they think it will take for the purchase order to be done, 3.) Ask them why the purchase order hasn't been done inside the estimated time, 4.) Express your dissatisfaction at having to wait over a week for a purchase order, 5.) Offer to hand over your firstborn child if only they will please, please, create the goddamn thing TODAAAAY!!

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quote:
Originally posted by chive:
And finally if you are going to write bullshit about me you should have the courtesy to copy me into your letter so that I could dispute it at the time instead of months later when it's in the system and all over my medical records.

And fuck you for having me find all this out in the middle of a fortnight's annual leave which I took because I was under a lot of stress and wanted to chill out. Instead of that I have to write stroppy letters to you and your boss and try to get this rectified.

Don't bother about the letters: take it straight to the GMC (general Medical Council) and CQC (Care and Quality Commission). Fight fire with fire. If she's lied about this with you, what else has she lied about with others who lack your resolve to address it.

You may also like to contact the Information Commissioner - since this information is recorded it is incorrect (and therefore proscribed) under the terms of the Data Protection Act. In case you think it doesn't work - I won a case against HMRC for this very thing.

[ 27. November 2014, 06:57: Message edited by: ExclamationMark ]

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quote:
Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
TICTH myself, for having wasted a golden opportunity to annoy a racist old sod wearing a UKIP badge. He was sitting outside the Polling Station yesterday, asking in an unctuous and oleaginous manner for the poll numbers of those coming in to vote (apparently this is legal!!).

I just wish I'd pointed out to him (gently, of course, and in Christian Love) that, if his party got rid of all the Awful Foreigners And People Not Like Us, he'd have no-one to wipe his arse and bring him a cuppa tea when he's in his nursing home........ Ian J.

I feel the same about Tories, Labour and Liberals (sigh).
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Bishops Finger
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So do I - which is why I am a paid-up member of none of those parties, but of the only proper left-wing, 'socialist' party in the UK......

[Snigger]

Ian J.

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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
So do I - which is why I am a paid-up member of none of those parties, but of the only proper left-wing, 'socialist' party in the UK......

[Snigger]

Ian J.

Holy moly, we have another 'Tankie' in our midst!

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Bishops Finger
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[Killing me]

Not quite...... [Devil]

Ian J.

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TICTH people who bit on things on ebay, then decide they don't want them after all [Mad]

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TITCH emotional blackmail by charities.

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TICTH the fact that Black Friday is now a thing. In France. It's enough to make me want to join the Occupy movement [Mad]

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Kelly Alves

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TICTH the chickenshit admins in the Orinda Unified School Distrrict.

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quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
The person who thinks that a suitable price for an A.C. Black's out of print school carol book (£20 when in print) is £213.

Just use another arrangement - it's carols, there're more arrangements of each of them than any reasonable person could possibly want. Or do your own.

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Sioni Sais
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TICTH all who cannot spell gauge, as in railways. The 'a' comes before the 'u', people.

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basso

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quote:
Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
Just use another arrangement - it's carols, there're more arrangements of each of them than any reasonable person could possibly want. Or do your own.

That comment could only have been posted by someone who doesn't understand books.

The OP clearly wants to hold in her hands (or give to a niece or nephew) the book she held as a schoolgirl. There are some books (the edition of A Christmas Carol we read from every Christmas comes to mind) that make me mist up just to think of holding them.

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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
TICTH the chickenshit admins in the Orinda Unified School Distrrict.

Oh FFS that's appalling. What's their definition of 'residency', then? Being the homeowner?

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Kelly Alves

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Update: the district is now offering to allow the Storches to fill out an affidative claiming they are Vivian's caretakers. That's right, they have to state on paper that her mother isn't the one taking care if her.

Fucking soulless assholes.

The community of Orinda had deep, deep pockets, and I have no shame in hoping the district gets sued into their next couple of collective karmic incarnations. Which will probably be invertabrate.

FURTHER. Update: the fuckers backed down!

[ 29. November 2014, 23:06: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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quote:
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Update: the fuckers backed down!

It sounds like a very qualified backing down based on the fact that a nice white couple has been willing to say that they are responsible for her.

The fact that the girl and her mother live with said couple, who are her mother's employers, doesn't actually seem to matter. 'Cause the mother's a bit brown, you see, and brown people can't possibly live in our school district.

To be fair to the school district, it's not an unfamiliar issue. I live in a fairly well-off school district which is adjacent to a much poorer one. Every year, without fail, the elementary schools get a sudden influx of registrations the day before school starts. One or two of these late registrants are genuine local residents, but the majority are children from the poorer city next door who are registering with an address of convenience. By leaving the registration to the last moment, they hope that their child will be admitted without proper checks - there's a local law that says that once a school district has admitted a child, that child can stay for the year even if he/she moves to a different district.

(Of course, my preference is to abolish school districts completely, and issue vouchers paid for by state income tax. In which case you wouldn't get any of this nonsense. You'd probably still end up with oversubscribed schools finding a way to turn away poorer, darker pupils, though.)

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TICTH the habit iTunes has developed of randomly losing music metadata. I don't want albums sorted by singer's first name, thanks, and why the hell is the artwork for that album not showing up on my iPhone?

EDIT: Well, I found out what had happened with the artwork. Every individual track on the album had the artwork, but somehow it's being lost from the album as a whole. Bizarre. Haven't found a fix yet.

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quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
The person who thinks that a suitable price for an A.C. Black's out of print school carol book (£20 when in print) is £213.

Just use another arrangement - it's carols, there're more arrangements of each of them than any reasonable person could possibly want. Or do your own.
You might think that, but one of the ones I wanted, I could only find a reference to in two places, with the words only in one, a service plan from Ontario. I do have the tune in my head, fortunately.

Another one of them I could find umpteen sets of words for, all varying slightly from the version I know in odd ways, as if transcribed aurally from recordings or memory. Tune in head again, fortunately.

I have sheet music for some, and other books which cover most options.

Plan B is to visit my old school with a hand scanner.

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quote:
Originally posted by basso:
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Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
Just use another arrangement - it's carols, there're more arrangements of each of them than any reasonable person could possibly want. Or do your own.

That comment could only have been posted by someone who doesn't understand books.

The OP clearly wants to hold in her hands (or give to a niece or nephew) the book she held as a schoolgirl. There are some books (the edition of A Christmas Carol we read from every Christmas comes to mind) that make me mist up just to think of holding them.

Nice thought, but it is more pragmatic than that - there are five or six songs in there, all together, which would be nice to sing, and to get all of them another way would be very time consuming, and result in having to lug round sheets and sheets of printout instead of just three compact books.
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Okay, that's it. Just so you all remember, Sioni killed the last TICTH after too many stupid tangents.

Penny S, if you want to kvetch about capitalism and people trying to sell overpriced crap for prices higher than you can find it online (the horror!), get a fucking blog.

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quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
Okay, that's it. Just so you all remember, Sioni killed the last TICTH after too many stupid tangents.


And I didn't kill it as a passing gesture. I beat one of my co-hosts by no more than minutes.

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Curiosity killed ...

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Sodding pneumonia - I knew it hadn't shifted completely with the last antibiotics, so 1am shifts to get work done were really not a good idea. This back in full force is not what I want as a Christmas gift.

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luvanddaisies

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quote:
Originally posted by basso:
quote:
Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
Just use another arrangement - it's carols, there're more arrangements of each of them than any reasonable person could possibly want. Or do your own.

That comment could only have been posted by someone who doesn't understand books.

The OP clearly wants to hold in her hands (or give to a niece or nephew) the book she held as a schoolgirl. There are some books (the edition of A Christmas Carol we read from every Christmas comes to mind) that make me mist up just to think of holding them.

Fuck you, I understand books very well, but I also understand that pure sentimentality isn't worth over £200, unless you happen to be so ridiculously wealthy that happens to be an affordable amount for you.

The book she's talking about is a mediocre book of Christmas carols arranged for schools, and if you know a tune and the words, it doesn't take long to knock up a decent arrangement for it (as I'm sure you know, given that your name here implies you probably sing in a choir).
Of course, it takes even less time to simply choose a different carol.

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quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
Okay, that's it. Just so you all remember, Sioni killed the last TICTH after too many stupid tangents.

I'm sorry, I posted the above before reading downthread, because I should be going to get ready for w*rk but am doing an idiotic combination of procrastinating and rushing. Mea Culpa. Sorry.

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TICTH Black Friday and the whole Mammonic, money/possessions-idolatrous system it's connected to.

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TICTH "Morning Joe." [Mad]

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TITCH The Guardian - not for any of the usual reasons (too liberal, too fancy-pantsy, too interlectual, or even (shock, horror) - too turning-into-a-tabloid)

No, it's for this abomination of sloppiness and misreporting. (new information gleaned from DNA analysis of King Richard III skeleton).

It's perhaps to be expected that the whole 'there's probably a bastard in the queen's ancestry' teaser turns out to have just been clickbait. Then there's the 'he was blond and blue-eyed instead' one. Which appears to be - he was reasonably likely to have had some variant of blue/grey eyes (astonishing - accords with the portraits! How is this news?), and probably had blond hair in childhood. Well, fuck me. You've just described a person of English descent. Who would have thought it of a king of the English? Honestly, I'm struggling here to think of a single fully caucasian person I know who wasn't blond in childhood, except for the redheads!

However, that's just the pre-rant. (It should be noted here that I am not any of the following: history graduate, history student, history enthusiast, Richard III nut) - yet despite this, even I know the following 1.) Richard's only legitimate child was NOT called Richard, as the article claims. His name was Edward. And if the reporter wasn't sure, she could have just checked Wikipedia, instead of making shit up. 2.) Queen Anne was not, as the article claims, childless. She had a bunch of children*, she was just unfortunate enough to outlive them all. That is emphatically not the same thing as being childless. Careless and sloppy stuff all round.

*Who knows whether or not it is wise to regard Wikipedia as the repository of all wisdom, but if it is, then she had seventeen pregnancies and five children living at birth. Childless, in a pig's eye...

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TICTH the monster headache that greeted me when I woke up this morning. It's one thing to have have a headache of this magnitude if you've done something to deserve it, but that's not the case. And it doesn't want to leave me....
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TICTH veterinary science courses.

The Girl wants to study it at university - a tiny, almost niche, course requiring ridiculously high grades. The course requirements also include such a range of previous experience as to make it almost impossible for her, or anyone like her, or anyone with parents poorer than us, which is almost everyone, to apply in good conscience for a place.

That second barrier is what'll stop her - we simply don't have the money or the connections to make it happen. [Mad]

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Aviva. Quick enough to sell me a travel insurance policy, not so hot at actually getting it to me. Oh, I need to register with MyAviva to get my documents. Oh look, it won't let me because it can't match my name with any of its records. Oh look, it still can't an hour later, which would be 50 minutes after advising me "it may take up to 10 minutes for your documents to appear on MyAviva". And oh, goody, a phone number that costs me 14p/minute to hold on while you play Gregorian chant-fusion at me (even though another number tucked away on your site with a much smaller premium gets me to exactly the same holding position).

May your shrieks from the eternal flames rise to the ears of the Almighty only to be met with jazzed up Gregorian chant and a recorded voice thanking you for your patience.

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